Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 4/28/21


Amanda Hulse-Kemp crosses many fields, literally.

As a USDA assistant professor in computational biology at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, she helps NC State plant and animal scientists elevate their research by incorporating some of the latest computational advances, data-based research methods, and tools. In her main role as a scientist for the USDA Agricultural Research Service, she helps transition this basic research from the labs into the fields. She does this all while serving as an advisor for several Ph.D. students. 

She has been involved in more than a dozen projects, including an initial research project with the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative, which brings together scientists from a wide range of disciplines to solve some of the largest issues facing agriculture using big data, artificial intelligence, predictive modeling and other highly advanced methods and technologies. 

Hulse-Kemp is also this year’s recipient of the Herbert L. Rothbart Early Career Research Scientist award, an honor given to only one USDA scientist per year, for leading projects that have rapidly advanced breeding programs for cotton, spinach, tomato, coffee, pepper, and other crops. Her work has allowed researchers to produce usable genetic data in three days, as opposed to weeks or months using earlier techniques.

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